[Robert Spillane, “Mind Myths: The author responds,” The Skeptic, 2007, 27, 2, 55. PDF.] The sceptical David Hume observed that reason is a slave of the passions. Empirical support for this proposition can be found in the cathartic letters which appeared in “Forum” (27:1: 50-55) in response to my article “The Mind and Mental Illness: A […]
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The Mind and Mental Illness
[Robert Spillane, “The Mind and Mental Illness: a Tale of Two Myths,” The Skeptic, 2006, 26, 4, 46-50. PDF. This paper forms the basis of a talk given by Prof Spillane to a NSW Skeptics Dinner Meeting during 2006.] My aim in this paper is to ask if there is such a thing as a […]
Spillane TV interview on ADHD myth
[August 4 2009 interview on Australia’s Channel Nine morning program Today.]
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Szasz’s The Meaning of Mind
[Robert Spillane, Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, vol. 3, no. 2 (July 1997), pp. 53-55. PDF.] SZASZ, THOMAS (1996) The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality and Neuroscience Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Given the alarming rate of increase in stress claims (reported by Comcare and others) and given Australians’ propensity to engage in litigation following the RSI […]
